Homekit Automations are broken in iOS 16

Happy to report that the 16.2 upgrade fixed all my problems with home, for all devices thread, bluetooth, wifi. All automations time, presences, functioning as they should. have edited and changed several of them and those continue to work 24 hours later. Fingers crossed. Hopefully this will last.

Prior to upgrade I had not done any of the recommended workarounds other than removing Homepod and HomePod mini and reinstalling. Disabled Apple TV hub connection and enabled.

Final thing I did which I did prior to the problems with IOS 16 is setup a EERO profile for all Home Hub devices, pausing them every night for 30”. This gets around the fact that apple does not let you assign a primary HUB. When I do the Pause/Resume with EERO it always defaults to the AppleTV as the Hub.

Again fingers crossed this will hold for a while until it is broken by some other factor in the chain. Hoping the new architecture and Matter standard will stabilize things. GL everyone

In my case ios 16.2 didn’t change anything to the way appletv and home hub on it are configured. I have in fact disabled Apple TV home hub in the settings and only use my HomePods as hubs and since I do this all of my automations operate rock solid.

Yes, jbrooksga, just like me and a few other ppl here. Let us know if appletv is your „connected“ home hub when that happens. If you have a homepod, see if your problems are solved by either unplugging the appletv or on older appletv by disabling it as a have me hub in the settings under „AirPlay and HomeKit“. Good luck.

I discovered a really strange behaviour when trying to debug why my home automations were not firing. Instead of adding home automations, I created personal shortcuts on my dedicated iPad for Apple Home that accomplishes the very same as my home automations. So far, they have NEVER failed to run and I have had about 6 weeks of no issues whereby with the home automations it would be a daily, maybe even every other day where my home automations will not fire (mostly timed automations, i.e. run every day, etc). There is a blurred line between Shortcuts and home automations. Definitely a very huge improvement and take this observation for what its worth. Good luck!

I have recreated “Home” and that has no effect. Since 16 release, any modification of a automation causes that automation to stop working. The workaround I have found is to delete the automation and recreate it. The recreated automation will work until it is modified, then it stops. I can recreate this issue any time an automation is modified.

3 HomePods, 3 ATVs, iPhone 12, latest iPad Pro, Watch, Hue lights throughout house, 3 Ecobee thermostats on Linksys mesh network (3 nodes). Repeated and random dropping of thermostats and automations in Homekit. Automations worked more consistently when the 2 wifi child nodes were unplugged. Recently able to correct all of my issues by getting all nodes recognized by Homekit, updating all ATVs to 16.3 and disabling all as home hubs. Phone, pad, and pods are also all updated. Thermostats immediately appeared and all automations now working with all mesh nodes online - this is a first.

I found in iOS 16.0, time-of-day automations only work for me if they trigger a Scene. They are not working for individual accessories.

My AppleTV 4K is my hub. Searching for a fix I went into the settings and turned the “hub” option for AppleTV off and on again. After this all automations are working again.

Logging off my iCloud account from the Apple TV, then rebooting and logging back in (and completing the setup) worked for me. Automations are once again functional!

So I can honestly say, that after signing out of iCloud and back in, that my automations have been working.

So I just signed out of my iPhone iCloud. Didn’t for iPad and all my other devices. my process was, delete automations, sign out of iCloud, then sign back in, re install automations.

For it works when I removed all users from Apple TV, Restart it and add my user as default user again.

My best suggestion is to make sure whatever devices are acting as your home hub are running 16.2, for example HomePod or appletv.

For many of us (but perhaps not all) that has fixed it.

Automations were all screwed up and "at night only" settings were not working. I updated to iOS 16.3 which seems to have fixed the issue.

Most of the suggestions here were helpful and I tried them. Clearly not enough testing on Homekit before iOS 16 release. After trying pretty much everything I ended up deleting many of my existing scenes and recreating them in the third party app Home + which did seem to work in terms of recognizing me leaving and coming home (this all broke in iOS16). All my music homepod stuff broke in spite of restarting, etc. Home + Scenes worked but as noted elsewhere i had to create ON/OFF separate scenes.

Not the experience I expect from Apple. I sent feedback as well. Apple pay attention to this stuff if you ever want Home to gain market share. It is too buggy and only people who are persistent seem to have success.